LWN Weekly Edition
Front pageSecurity
Kernel development
Distributions
Development
Linux in the news
Announcements
->One big page
This page
Previous weekFollowing week
Sponsored link
Vyatta –
Linux & Open Source
Alternative to Cisco –
Advanced Routing,
Firewall, VPN, QoS..
Free Download ->
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements The Digital Standards Organization - The Hague Declaration David A. Wheeler has sent in a pointer to The Digital Standards Organization (Digistan); "The Digital Standards Organization was founded by open standards professionals in 2007 with the goal of promoting customer choice, vendor competition, and overall growth in the global digital economy through the understanding, development, and adoption of free and open digital standards."Digistan will be presenting The Hague Declaration on May 21, 2008, to encourage governments to take open standards seriously. Take a look at the declaration and add your signature if you agree.
Fedora working with Seneca College Red Hat has announced a partnership with Seneca College wherein students will work with the Fedora project. "A new grant funds a liaison position within the School of Computer Studies to work with Fedora Project members to identify opportunities for student involvement and to guide students as they integrate into the community. This proven model was developed at Seneca and will be incorporated into several programs beginning with the Linux/Unix System Administration (LUX) program, an intense one-year graduate certificate. Fedora projects will be integrated into academic coursework, used as major projects, or funded through government grants."
OLPC and Microsoft The One Laptop Per Child has finally sent out an official communication on its agreement with Microsoft, which involves the creation of a dual-boot version of the XO laptop. "OLPC is substantially increasing its engineering resources and all software development continues entirely on GNU/Linux. We will continue to work to make Sugar on Linux the best possible platform for education and to invest in our expanding Linux deployments in Peru, Uruguay, Mexico and elsewhere. No OLPC resources are going to porting Sugar to Microsoft Windows..."
Announcing Sugar Labs The Sugar Labs Foundation has announced its existence. "Sugar is the core of the XO laptop's human-computer interface; it provides a fun, easy-to-use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning. Sugar Labs will focus on providing a software ecosystem that enhances learning on the XO laptop as well as other laptops distributed by other companies, such as the ASUS Eee PC. Consistent with the OLPC mission to provide opportunities for learning, an independent Sugar Labs Foundation can deliver learning software to other hardware vendors and, consequently, reach more children."
Commercial announcements Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta Adobe Labs has announced a beta release of Flash Player 10. "Adobe Flash Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level. This public prerelease is an opportunity for developers and consumers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content." See the release notes for more information.
ActivePerl 5.10.0.1003 released by ActiveState ActiveState has announced the release of ActivePerl 5.10.0.1003 with new DBD::Oracle functionality. "Complete and ready-to-install, ActivePerl includes core Perl, popular modules, the Perl Package Manager (PPM), and complete documentation. With over 250,000 downloads each month, ActivePerl remains the industry-standard for Perl development. ActivePerl is provided free to the community and is available as a supported and OEM product to enterprises globally."
Zenoss releases Point-and-Click installers for major Linux Platforms New installers are available for Zenoss Core. "Zenoss, Inc., a leading provider of commercial open source network, systems and applications management software, today announced availability of the Zenoss Core "Stack," point-and-click installers for leading Linux platforms including Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat's Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core, CentOS, Debian, OpenSUSE and Novell's SUSE Enterprise."
New Books Advanced Rails Recipes--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Advanced Rails Recipes by Mike Clark.
Java Power Tools - New From O'Reilly O'Reilly has published the book Java Power Tools by John Ferguson Smart.
JavaScript: The Good Parts--New from O'Reilly O'Reilly has published the book JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford.
Resources Open Source Security Report Coverity, Inc. has announced the availability of the Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008. "The Coverity Scan site was developed with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as part of the federal government's 'Open Source Hardening Project.' The report is based on 2 years of analysis of more than 55 million lines of code on a recurring basis from over 250 popular open source projects with Coverity Prevent, the industry-leading static source code analysis solution."
Contests and Awards White Camel nominations are now open (use Perl) use Perl has announced that nominations for the White Camel award are open. "Every year, at OSCON, the White Camels are presented. If you look at the previous winners, you'll notice that these are mostly unsung heroes, like previous awardee Eric Cholet, the human moderator of so many Perl mailing lists, or Jay Hannah, one of the people running pm.org (if you ever created/maintained a pm group, chances are that Jay walked you through the process). Some of these people may be well known, like Allison Randal or Randal Schwartz, while others may be complete strangers to at least part of the globe, like Josh McAdams or Jay."
Education and Certification Python and Plone Boot Camps in Chapel Hill, NC Several Python and Plone boot camps will take place in North Carolina during August, 2008. "Triangle (NC) Zope and Python Users Group (TriZPUG) is proud to open registration for our fourth annual ultra-low cost Plone and Python training camps, BootCampArama 2008".
Calls for Presentations Hack.lu 2008 cfp A call for papers has gone out for Hack.lu 2008. The event will take place in Luxembourg on October 22-24, 2008, submissions are due by July 1. "The purpose of the hack.lu convention is to give an open and free playground where people can discuss the implication of new technologies in society. hack.lu is a balanced mix convention where technical and non-technical people can meet each others and share freely all kind of information."
Upcoming Events Netfilter Workshop 2008 announced The Netfilter Workshop 2008 has been announced. "Following the lastest successful workshop in Karlsruhe, Germany, in October 2007. We are happy to announce the next edition in the workshop series. This year the event will be hosted in Paris, France from September 29th to October 3rd, 2008."
Open Source City - Liverpool Open Source City will take place in Liverpool, UK on June 17-22, 2008. "Open Source City tips its hat to Liverpool’s pioneering spirit by offering a programme of workshops, masterclasses, talks and concerts that shed light on the growing impact of Free/Libre Open Source Software on the creative practices of today, in particular in media art and music."
Events: May 29, 2008 to July 28, 2008 The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Audio and Video programs Videos from the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit The Linux Foundation has posted a series of videos from the Collaboration Summit held in Austin. There's a bunch of interesting stuff there, but, unfortunately, the videos are in Flash format and, thus, will not collaborate well with a lot of Linux systems. The word from the Foundation is that the company hired to do the video work wasn't able to figure out how to produce the final result in an open format.
Page editor: Forrest Cook |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||